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Current World Champions may fall in the finals of the second stage of the 2010 Rowing World Cup in Munich, Germany, tomorrow 20 June, starting at 09:48 CET.

The gap is closing on the British men's four and New Zealand will have challenges from all sides in the Lightweight Men's Double. Ukraine's women's quadruple scull World Champions will again have a tough race. Watch out too for an upset in the men's double. Can China come out of nowhere to change the status quo?

Women's Pair (W2-)

• New Zealand's Juliette Haigh and Rebecca Scown will take on the Romanians who have two boats in the final.
• Romania will also race in the eight. Can they manage the double-header Sunday?

Men's Pair (M2-)

• The British (Reed and Triggs Hodge) vs New Zealand (Bond and Murray) clash will take place in the final. Both crews have come through the heats and semifinals looking on top form.

Women's Double Sculls (W2x)

• Anna Watkins and Katherine Grainger of Great Britain will face a tight German combination of Annekatrin Thiele and Julia Richter. Watkins and Grainger have had to race twice already as they are also in the quad. Thiele and Richter have raced once and will be fresher.

Men's Double Sculls (M2x)

• China created a surprise by winning their semifinal ahead of Switzerland and the United States today. Will they be able to keep the pace tomorrow in the final?
• Great Britain's Marcus Bateman and Matthew Wells won at Rowing World Cup I in Bled. They also won their semifinal today. They will be definite gold medal contenders tomorrow.

Men's Four (M4-)

• 2009 world silver medalists Australia were beaten in the semifinal by their nation's number two boat. There will be revenge in the final.
• Current World Champions Great Britain looked strong in their semifinal but not completely dominating. This race will be close.

Lightweight Women's Double Sculls (LW2x)

• Hester Goodsell and Sophie Hosking of Great Britain look to be in control and will be the crew to beat.
• Can Germany (Daniela Reimer and Anja Noske) step up a notch to beat out the British? Goodsell and Hosking have the edge as they have had more time in the boat together than the Germans.

Lightweight Men's Double Sculls (LM2x)

• World Champions New Zealand (Storm Uru and Peter Taylor) were beaten in their semifinal by Germany. Can the young Germans pull it off in the final?
• The return of 2008 Olympic Champions Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter (GBR) has looked to be easy. The duo looked comfortable in their heats and semifinals, but they have not yet raced New Zealand or Germany.

Lightweight Men's Four (LM4-)

• Like at Rowing World Cup I, this final looks to be a showdown between Great Britain and Denmark. Both crews are in good form coming through from wins in their respective semifinals.
• Watch out for Serbia and the Czech Republic. Confidence will play in their favour.

Women's Quadruple Sculls (W4x)

• Great Britain will not have it as easy as at the first Rowing World Cup. Ukraine is fresh and improving and two German crews have national team positions at stake when they race in the final.

Men's Quadruple Sculls (M4x)

• Olympic and World Champions Poland look far from dominating. Croatia beat them in the semifinal and Germany is improving with every race together. Stephen Krueger has definitely added to the German crew.

Women's Eight (W8+)

• This is a clean slate with Romania and first Rowing World Cup winners Great Britain yet to show their form at this regatta.
• Half of Romania's boat are racing earlier in the day in the women's pair. Do they have the stamina?

Women's Single Sculls (W1x)

• Two feisty Australians, Sally Kehoe and Kim Crow, show no fear in taking on the legendary Ekaterina Karsten-Khodotovitch of Belarus. But Karsten looks in fine racing form despite this being early in the season.
• Watch out for China's sculler Jingli Duan who had a great race to win her semifinal.

Men's Single Sculls (M1x)

• Home-water favourite Marcel Hacker of Germany will meet the very confident Ondrej Synek of the Czech Republic in the final. Both scullers have shown new racing maturity this season and it will be hard for Alan Campbell (GBR) and Olympic Champion, Olaf Tufte (NOR), to beat them.

Men's Eight (M8+)

• Germany has strengthened their 2009 World Champion boat and will meet Great Britain for the first time in the final. Both crews have the skill to win. But they must watch out for the gutsy Chinese. This race will be close.

Follow the racing live on www.worldrowing.com thanks to the Live Race Viewer. The event finals will be video streamed live on Sunday 20 June and can be accessed through the www.worldrowing.com website.

The Rowing World Cup series was launched in 1997, and includes all 14 Olympic boat classes. The overall Rowing World Cup winners are determined after a series of three regattas. Germany has dominated the series since its beginning ten years ago, with Great Britain upsetting the usual trend by finishing 68 points ahead of Germany in 2009. This year, the three stages of the series are held in Bled, Slovenia (27-30 May), Munich, Germany (18-20 June); and the final in Lucerne, Switzerland (9-11 July).

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